Lost Hwy Utility Pole Maintenance.....

gorfchampion

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I was digging thru my extra insulators(for the Lost Highway's utility poles) and forgot about this one insulator that's just a little different.

Its a pole to ground (stabilizer wire) insulator, which is mounted halfway between the pole and the ground with two separate wires.

I made a quick run downtown to see exactly how they are mounted. I used 2 lengths of garage door track wire, ran them thru each end of the insulator, gave em a few twists and then tied off each wire to itself with small pieces of scrap wire.

I used a large staple to secure the wire to the pole, and a staple gun to secure the other end to the top of the molding behind the hot water heater.

I also had to make a "L" shaped bracket to stabilize the pole; keeping the new wire and insulator tight at the same time. I just screwed the bracket into the pole itself and into the ceiling with 2 screws. You can kinda see it if you look closely.

I also switched out 1 insulator on each pole(4 total) so none of them match. This one has the brown porcelain on one side and the clear glass on the other.

One more thing, the other wire hanging down from the clear glass insulator is a "broken" line to symbolize that the power is out on the "Lost Highway".

I love doing this stuff, just thought I'd share....
 

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Thanks guys, glad you like it.

I have some more interesting additions that I will share within the next week or so.

Stay tuned.....
 
Nice, I wonder if you could squeeze a transmission tower in there too.

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Gorfchampion your arcade looks sweet! I whould love to have a basement arcade someday but will never happen here in Cali. I whould turn it into a GOLDMINE arcade like the one I used to go to as a kid.Those poles in your arcade reminded me what it looked like inside like a mine shaft with wood pillars and rock formations and it was dark oh well i'm dreaming again LOL, someday!
 
Gorfchampion your arcade looks sweet! I whould love to have a basement arcade someday but will never happen here in Cali. I whould turn it into a GOLDMINE arcade like the one I used to go to as a kid.Those poles in your arcade reminded me what it looked like inside like a mine shaft with wood pillars and rock formations and it was dark oh well i'm dreaming again LOL, someday!


Well, don't lose sight of your dreams. You may move to MN one day and have a huge friggin basement to start your GOLDMINE in!
 
As always, the improvements just keep coming. Nice to see the bar raised and at the same time inspire others to follow their own 'lost highway'.
 
Enlighten me please....
Yeah, I don't get it either. They're certainly used on guy wires. Here's a pic of one on a guy wire spanning over a railroad track, and another similar one spanning a road (that one actually had 2 of them).
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Also, for transmission towers, if you want small ones to force a distant perspective, you can get those transmission towers in small scales, like HO (I have a few, although they look pretty heavy for their size. Probably would be too fragile otherwise)
 

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Yeah, I don't get it either. They're certainly used on guy wires. Here's a pic of one on a guy wire spanning over a railroad track, and another similar one spanning a road (that one actually had 2 of them).
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Also, for transmission towers, if you want small ones to force a distant perspective, you can get those transmission towers in small scales, like HO (I have a few, although they look pretty heavy for their size. Probably would be too fragile otherwise)


Yeah, they are used in many different configurations. There's a pole right up the street from me that has a stabilizer wire running from about 1/3 of the way up the pole down to the ground at about a 45 degree angle; with the insulator halfway down, just like the one I just made.....
 
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